ZowPow YC Application

Winter 2014Inactive

ZowPow went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2014 batch as a Consumer company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2014
Industry: ConsumerConsumer Electronics
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2013

Founders

Jennifer BronzoFounder
Brian KrejcarekFounder

What ZowPow does

ZowPow is a Wireless toy game controllers for mobile games.

ZowPow's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

ZowPow, Winter 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

ZowPow

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Wireless toy game controllers for mobile games

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We make wireless toy controllers designed to interact with mobile games. Our product bridges physical play and digital gaming by letting users control mobile games with a real, handheld toy controller.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and have access to key resources, talent, and a strong gaming and hardware startup community. It makes sense to build and grow the company here.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real ZowPow YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from ZowPow's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like ZowPow would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.